Free medical care is like free groceries: Someone has to pay
There are many factors involved that inflate the cost of health care. Malpractice litigation is one. Make limits on awards, and costs come down. Doctors would not need to order every test they can think of, just because something may get missed. Requiring hospitals to provide care is another. If grocery stores were required to provide free groceries to anyone, even if they had no plan to pay for
